Not that you needed one, but here's another sign that former New York Governor George Pataki just isn't going to run for President: One of his most loyal longtime advisers is going to work for onetime Pataki arch-rival Rudy Giuliani.

The Rudy camp announced this morning that Republican consultant Mike McKeon has joined up with the campaign. McKeon is a longtime devoted Pataki adviser: He worked for the Pataki administration in New York for eight years, from 1995 until 2003, the last two as his communications director, and also took a leave of absence from the Governor's office to work full-time on Pataki's 2002 reelection campaign.

Is there any chance that McKeon would sign up to work for Rudy unless McKeon knew his former boss wasn't running?

McKeon himself insists Pataki didn't tell him he's officially out of it. "I spoke to the Governor before taking the job," McKeon tells me. "He told me he supported my decision, and he told me what he told [the press] -- that he's going to focus on policy and not politics."